Course Highlights

This course features homework assignments, labs and an extensive reading list.

Course Description

This course elaborates on the fundamentals of how the design and operation of internal combustion engines affect their performance, operation, fuel requirements, and environmental impact, study of fluid flow, thermodynamics, combustion, heat transfer and friction phenomena, and fuel properties, relevant to engine power, efficiency, and emissions, examination of design features and operating characteristics of different types of internal combustion engines: spark-ignition, diesel, stratified-charge, and mixed-cycle engines. The project section details the Engine Laboratory project. We have aimed this course for graduate and senior undergraduate students.

Grading

Homework

The purpose of the homework and problems is to get each of you to think about and use the material we discuss in class.

Obviously, I want each of you to make a serious try at each problem. If discussions with other students help you get started, then contribute to and benefit from such discussions.

However, I expect that each of you will work independently on the details of the problem solutions which you hand in as your work. I regard it as dishonest to copy from any previously circulated solutions and present such work as your own.

If you have any questions about the above, please discuss them with me.

Calendar

SES #

TOPICS

KEY DATES

1

Overview
Basics of Engine Operation

Problem set 1 out

2

Engine Geometry
Performance Parameters

3

Engine Disassembly
In Lab

Problem set 1 due
Problem set 2 out

4

Ideal Cycle Analysis
Combustion Stoichiometry

5

Fuel-air Cycle Model
Fuel-air Cycle Results

Problem set 2 due
Problem set 3 out

6

Gas Exchange: 4-Stroke
Gas Exchange: 2-Stroke

7

Spark-ignition Engine Combustion
Flame Propagation and Structure

8

Recitation

Problem set 3 due

Problem set 4 out

9

Knock

10

SI Engine Emissions

11

Emission Control Technology
Review

12

Quiz (Duration: 1-1/2 hours) Open Book

Problem set 5 out

13

Mixture Preparation
Engine Friction

14

Engine Heat Transfer
2-Stroke SIE Performance

Problem set 5 due
Problem set 6 out

15

4-Stroke SIE Performance

16

Variable Valve Control
Gasoline DI Engines

17

Diesel Overview
Diesel Combustion

Problem set 6 due
Design problem out

18

Diesel Emissions
Emission Control

19

Turbocharging

Diesel Performance

20

1-hour Lab Preparation

Design problem due

21

2-hour Lab Session

22

Engine Noise
Engine Dynamics

Lab report due 1 week after session 22

23

Future Engine Technology
Discussion

24

Final Exam (Duration: 3 hours) Open Book

Courseware/Lectures:

Test/Tutorials:

Further Reading:

Readings

The readings referred to the table below are recommended readings from the text:

Related Resources

Bibliography on Internal CombustionEngines

Obert, Edward F. Internal Combustion Engines and Air Pollution. New York: Intext Educational Publishers, 1973 edition.
A good basic text on engines from the 1950s with modest updating in 1968; much excellent descriptive material.

Taylor, C. Fayette, and Edward S. Taylor. The Internal Combustion Engine. International Textbook Company, 1961.
A basic text now out of print and somewhat dated.

Taylor, C. F. The Internal Combustion Engine in Theory and Practice. Vol. 1, and 2. Cambridge, MA: M.I.T. Press, 1966 and 1968. Reissued in paperback in 1977, and in 1985 as Second Edition with minor modifications.
A much expanded version of reference 2; an advanced text with extensive material on engine design practice of the 1950s and 60s.

Ayres, Robert U., and Richard P. McKenna. Alternatives to the Internal Combustion Engines. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1972. ISBN: 9780801813696.
A fundamental text on the alternative engines to the internal combustion engine.

Nunney, M. J. The Automotive Engine. London: Newnes-Butterworths, 1974.
A book which reviews modern automotive engine practice; contains descriptions of design and operation of engines and engine components.

Springer, G. S., and D. J. Patterson, eds. Engine Emissions: Pollutant Formation and Measurement. New York, and London: Plenum Press, 1973.
A set of contributed chapters on different emissions topics; some chapters are still useful.

"Should We Have a New Engine?" An Automobile Power Systems Evaluation. Vol. 1. Summary, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, JPL SP 43-17, August 1975.
Popular summary of study which evaluates the internal combustion engine and its alternatives.

Cummins, Lyle. Internal Fire: The Internal Combustion Engine 1673 - 1900 Revised Edition. 2nd ed. Warrendale, PA: Society of Automotive Engineers, 1976.
Excellent and readable history of the internal combustion engine by the son of the founder of the Cummins Engine Company.

A History of the Automotive Internal Combustion Engine. Warrendale, PA: Society of Automotive Engineers special publication, SP-409, 1976.
A set of four SAE papers reviewing the history of IC engine developments.

Bosch. Automotive Handbook. 5th ed. Published by Robert Bosch GmbH. Warrendale, PA:Distributed by SAE, 2000.
A concise and useful summary of technical data on engine and vehicle components and systems.

Sher, E., ed. Handbook of Air Pollution from Internal Combustion Engines: Pollutant Formation and Control. San Diego, CA: Academic Press, 1998.
An extensive set of chapters, by different authors, on four-stroke and two-stroke cycle sparkignition and diesel engine operation and emissions, and fuel effects.

Flagan, R. C., and John H. Seinfeld. Fundamentals of Air Pollution Engineering. Englewood Cliffs, CA: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1988.
A review of air pollutant formation processes and sources, and control approaches.

Lenz, H. P., and C. Cozzarini. Emissions and Air Quality. Warrendale, PA: SAE, 1999.
A concise handbook with data on transportation emissions, their impact, and ways to control their magnitude.

Bosch. Gasoline-Engine Management. 1st ed. Published by Robert Bosch GmbH. Warrendale, PA: Distributed by SAE, 1999.
A handbook with extensive practical details on gasoline spark-ignition engines and their management and control.

———. Diesel-Engine Management. 2nd ed. Published by Robert Bosch GmbH. Warrendale, PA: Distributed by SAE, 1999.
A handbook witih extensive practical details on diesel engines, their emissions, and their management and control.

Stan, C., ed. Direct Injection Systems for Spark-Ignition and Compression-Ignition Engines. Published by Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg. Warrendale, PA: Distributed by SAE, 1999.
Multi-author volume on direct injection gasoline and diesel engines, focusing on the different practical approaches to direct injection of liquid fuel into the cylinder.

Blair, G. P. Design and Simulation of Four-Stroke Engines. Warrendale, PA: SAE, 1999.
A description of engine simulations, largely developed in the author’s laboratory, and their application to four-stroke engine performance prediction and design.